AAAAnd we’re back with a new page – FINALLY.
In addition to everything else, apparently my barbarianprincess.com email does not work any more. Godaddy support tells me that the data got mangled – but it’s not their fault and they sent me to my registrar, Tucows. Tucows does not HAVE any support that I can determine yet, so I intend to beg or threaten Godaddy for some kind of workaround. In the meantime, use my address from my (largely dormant) sister site, classicalfantasie.com: JEDRAFT@CLASSICALFANTASIE.COM, and it will get to me.
Welcome back.
I’ve been using pairDomains (https://www.pairdomains.com/ ) to host my blog for several years. I use my ISP’s email with Thunderbird as the front end, so I can’t address your email problem. pairDomains, however, has given me virtually trouble-free service for all that time, and on the very few occasions when there has been a problem, its support has been outstanding–prompt, responsive, and problem-solving. They’ve even helped me with a problem that wasn’t on their end but about which their support personnel happened to know something about. They’re quite proactive, too, in keeping their hosting service up to speed with updates and security updates.
The notices I get from them suggest they’re just as active, and proactive, with their email service.
It’ll be hard for you to find better than them.
Eric Hines
Uggh. Twocows has had a really bad rep for more than a decade, GoDaddy almost from when it came out. I don’t know who is good, but the above recommendation is certainly something!
Glad to see a new page! I hope things are better for you, know how rough it’s been on me.
Yep, I fully expected that was the case. Now they both have a long range option with their attacks.
Things are about to get.. ummm… messy? And loud!
Welcome back, JED! Happy for a new page. Condolences to you.
That can’t be the end of our favorite high priest, Gorshash, right? He wasn’t listed by name in the previous pages cast of characters. Projected image?
Jed, welcome to continuing. I lleft the below on the preceding page thinking it was this one…
Jed and others…
Besides time, the best thing that has helped me grieve has been doing something we.enjoyed doing together. At first I did them alone, but later I found sharing those things with others helped re-ground me. As an example we had one friend who is the life of the party. Every year we host a party on his birthday – Dave’s Memorial Birthday Bash, its held at a venue the frequented. Any extra money raised goes to the hospital they volunteered at. That both keeps them alive in our hearts, and helps others in their name.
I just got some interesting spam with this websites’ name on it. It was not germane to the topic, unless you’re now doing Ethiopian porn.
I didn’t think so. Did your comments section data leak?
Our ongoing incompatibility issues with the new WordPress are still not worked out, and I am afraid I might have to just redo the whole site again, but until I absolutely have to do that, I have this kludgy workaround.
See at the top menu on the right, “, I have converted the entire history of the web comic into a series of yeary PDF files that any one can download.
It’s not elegant, kind of a brute force workaround, but at least you all now can really start at the beginning and read the whole thing at your leisure.
Many thanks for your patience, and with hopes of a permanent solution in the near future.
In this, the final version we’re doing of this proof-of-concept video, Brian put in more fancy stuff and fixes and attention to wonderful details. Now we dive into production of the actual product, beginning a trailer for the series itself with all the new elements and knowledge we have put together so far.
This is the proof of concept for Zona in action. Brian’s solved a truckload of challenges and details with the hair and cloth simulations, animation and incorporating it all in the impressive realism of Unreal Engine. I put the music in … 🙂
We are moving from California to Connecticut, and we’re driving with the dogs and cat and so for the next couple of weeks the updates are going to be sporadic, and communication with you all might drop out. Never fear, we will return as surely as the sun rises and sets on our VW camper van. Still, I might have a little surprise for you Thursday or Friday. Stay tuned! Warmest regards, -JED
This is the final version of Zona in Unreal Engine before we begin full production on the trailer. Long time coming. Brian’s outdone himself, IMHO.
She breathes, she moves, she inhabits the space. Next update will have her in full-on sword-slinging action. Brian wanted to show her being something other than angry and hulked out, so he imagined her swooning at the sight of Mentl. I said that’s not really how the story goes, but it could be her first sight of Mentl naked, which is, well … long-time Zonaphiles know about Mentl’s Pride.
This is the realization of a dream I’ve had for a very long time, to bring Zona and Mentl fully to life in an animated series telling their story. Romance, violence, adventure and sexy stuff! Thanks to all of you for your support, and especially to all the Patreon Patrons for the generosity that they have shown and continue to show.
We have been at this for a long time now, and using Daz Studio for animation is adequate, but we needed much much more than it could deliver in order to do justice to Zona’s world. So we have ported all the Daz character assets into Unreal Engine, and Brian is finding that this is not only more realistic than we could have realized before in Daz, but also so much faster that he has accomplished more in six weeks than he did in six months before – maybe more. For myself I could not possibly be more pleased. This is a huge game changer!
This little teaser is a taste of what we will be making the series look like. It’s just the prelude to the opening scene where Mentl comes upon the Urtts. In 2021 the real stuff begins.
Until then, judge and compare the previous efforts to what Brian’s doing now.
Enjoy, and don’t forget, the patrons on Patreon.com/jedraft are going to see more sooner and enjoy additional benefits and rewards as well!
NOTE ALL: We recommend that the video be watched in at least 1440 at 60fps for full effect. Auto video quality in Youtube is set to much lower than that due to a decision on behalf of Youtube to decrease playback quality as a response to the increased use of broadband during the current crisis.
There are however, some ways to defeat this, as detailed in the video here:
One of my favorite webcomics is “Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic” (https://www.yafgc.net/). Its creator, Rich Morris is a telented professional who has been creating these delightful fun, engaging and funny long form fantasy comics for years. At long last he’s got himself a Patreon site so that we can give back a little for all the free stuff he’s put out there. My Zonaphiles will recall when he did the portrait of Zona and Mentl, and now as part of my Patreon-age, he’s doing a finished portrait of my choice. And I chose Ipola. The prelim sketches see below.
I cannot urge you strongly enough to support art, and support artists, and support this artist and his art.
Frigging finally, after hours and hours of solitary toil to make a visual novel/game of Zona (including an abortive attempt to export it which meant I had to practically recreate it from scratch) I have a 0.01 beta version as a demo. It is short and a bit rough around the edges, but I hope you all have fun with it.
Set in the master bedroom of the Hollywood mansion right after their engagement party, it’s where Zona confesses to her new silver-bonded Mentl the one thing that she has been keeping to herself forever.
In a way, this returns Zona to her origins in the adult find-your-path books she was created for, as the visual novel medium is just a higher tech version of that. Also, it’s very dirty. Definitely NOT safe for work.
I think of this as a “proof of concept” for one more product and direction we can take the characters and reward my wonderful Zonaphiles. Frankly, I think she lends herself to this medium pretty handily.
A one dollar patronage at patreon.com/JEDraft gets you access to this and much more!
11 thoughts on “Page 1335 – Kick Ass!”
jedraft
AAAAnd we’re back with a new page – FINALLY.
In addition to everything else, apparently my barbarianprincess.com email does not work any more. Godaddy support tells me that the data got mangled – but it’s not their fault and they sent me to my registrar, Tucows. Tucows does not HAVE any support that I can determine yet, so I intend to beg or threaten Godaddy for some kind of workaround. In the meantime, use my address from my (largely dormant) sister site, classicalfantasie.com: JEDRAFT@CLASSICALFANTASIE.COM, and it will get to me.
Warmest regards and gratitude to all of you.
JED
E Hines
Welcome back.
I’ve been using pairDomains (https://www.pairdomains.com/ ) to host my blog for several years. I use my ISP’s email with Thunderbird as the front end, so I can’t address your email problem. pairDomains, however, has given me virtually trouble-free service for all that time, and on the very few occasions when there has been a problem, its support has been outstanding–prompt, responsive, and problem-solving. They’ve even helped me with a problem that wasn’t on their end but about which their support personnel happened to know something about. They’re quite proactive, too, in keeping their hosting service up to speed with updates and security updates.
The notices I get from them suggest they’re just as active, and proactive, with their email service.
It’ll be hard for you to find better than them.
Eric Hines
Lurker314
Uggh. Twocows has had a really bad rep for more than a decade, GoDaddy almost from when it came out. I don’t know who is good, but the above recommendation is certainly something!
Scarsdale
Glad to see a new page! I hope things are better for you, know how rough it’s been on me.
Yep, I fully expected that was the case. Now they both have a long range option with their attacks.
Things are about to get.. ummm… messy? And loud!
Descartes
Welcome back, JED! Happy for a new page. Condolences to you.
That can’t be the end of our favorite high priest, Gorshash, right? He wasn’t listed by name in the previous pages cast of characters. Projected image?
RBZ
It was a different Urrt priest.
Lora
Welcome back and lovely page, too. 🙂
I honestly didn’t expect a page yet, I was just checking in.
Just_IDD
Jed, welcome to continuing. I lleft the below on the preceding page thinking it was this one…
Jed and others…
Besides time, the best thing that has helped me grieve has been doing something we.enjoyed doing together. At first I did them alone, but later I found sharing those things with others helped re-ground me. As an example we had one friend who is the life of the party. Every year we host a party on his birthday – Dave’s Memorial Birthday Bash, its held at a venue the frequented. Any extra money raised goes to the hospital they volunteered at. That both keeps them alive in our hearts, and helps others in their name.
Still continuing…
Joe Fonebone
Great page. Congrats on the comeback.
SFCGator
A very welcome back, JED. My heartiest wish for your well being going forward.
SeanR
I just got some interesting spam with this websites’ name on it. It was not germane to the topic, unless you’re now doing Ethiopian porn.
I didn’t think so. Did your comments section data leak?
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Page 1335 – Kick Ass!
NEW PDF ARCHIVE
Our ongoing incompatibility issues with the new WordPress are still not worked out, and I am afraid I might have to just redo the whole site again, but until I absolutely have to do that, I have this kludgy workaround.
VDSD – 2021 (barbarianprincess.com)
See at the top menu on the right, “, I have converted the entire history of the web comic into a series of yeary PDF files that any one can download.
It’s not elegant, kind of a brute force workaround, but at least you all now can really start at the beginning and read the whole thing at your leisure.
Many thanks for your patience, and with hopes of a permanent solution in the near future.
Warmest regards,
JED
Zona Animation: Morning Exercises V2
In this, the final version we’re doing of this proof-of-concept video, Brian put in more fancy stuff and fixes and attention to wonderful details. Now we dive into production of the actual product, beginning a trailer for the series itself with all the new elements and knowledge we have put together so far.
Rubbing my hands with glee.
Warm regards,
-JED
Zona Animation: Morning Exercises
This is the proof of concept for Zona in action. Brian’s solved a truckload of challenges and details with the hair and cloth simulations, animation and incorporating it all in the impressive realism of Unreal Engine.
I put the music in … 🙂
We’re On The Road!
We are moving from California to Connecticut, and we’re driving with the dogs and cat and so for the next couple of weeks the updates are going to be sporadic, and communication with you all might drop out. Never fear, we will return as surely as the sun rises and sets on our VW camper van. Still, I might have a little surprise for you Thursday or Friday. Stay tuned!
Warmest regards,
-JED
Animated Zona – Final version for Unreal Engine
This is the final version of Zona in Unreal Engine before we begin full production on the trailer. Long time coming. Brian’s outdone himself, IMHO.
She breathes, she moves, she inhabits the space. Next update will have her in full-on sword-slinging action. Brian wanted to show her being something other than angry and hulked out, so he imagined her swooning at the sight of Mentl. I said that’s not really how the story goes, but it could be her first sight of Mentl naked, which is, well … long-time Zonaphiles know about Mentl’s Pride.
This is the realization of a dream I’ve had for a very long time, to bring Zona and Mentl fully to life in an animated series telling their story. Romance, violence, adventure and sexy stuff! Thanks to all of you for your support, and especially to all the Patreon Patrons for the generosity that they have shown and continue to show.
patreon.com/JEDraft
Warm regards!
-JED
GAME CHANGER: UNREAL ENGINE
Zonaphiles:
We have been at this for a long time now, and using Daz Studio for animation is adequate, but we needed much much more than it could deliver in order to do justice to Zona’s world. So we have ported all the Daz character assets into Unreal Engine, and Brian is finding that this is not only more realistic than we could have realized before in Daz, but also so much faster that he has accomplished more in six weeks than he did in six months before – maybe more. For myself I could not possibly be more pleased. This is a huge game changer!
This little teaser is a taste of what we will be making the series look like. It’s just the prelude to the opening scene where Mentl comes upon the Urtts. In 2021 the real stuff begins.
Until then, judge and compare the previous efforts to what Brian’s doing now.
Enjoy, and don’t forget, the patrons on Patreon.com/jedraft are going to see more sooner and enjoy additional benefits and rewards as well!
NOTE ALL:
We recommend that the video be watched in at least 1440 at 60fps for full effect.
Auto video quality in Youtube is set to much lower than that due to a decision on behalf of Youtube to decrease playback quality as a response to the increased use of broadband during the current crisis.
There are however, some ways to defeat this, as detailed in the video here:
Warmest regards,
JED
R
Happy Holidays – 2020
Best wishes to all of you! Be safe!
We will soon have really exciting news for you, so watch this space!
Warmest regards,
-JED
Rich Morris – YAFGC Patreon
One of my favorite webcomics is “Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic” (https://www.yafgc.net/). Its creator, Rich Morris is a telented professional who has been creating these delightful fun, engaging and funny long form fantasy comics for years. At long last he’s got himself a Patreon site so that we can give back a little for all the free stuff he’s put out there.
My Zonaphiles will recall when he did the portrait of Zona and Mentl, and now as part of my Patreon-age, he’s doing a finished portrait of my choice. And I chose Ipola. The prelim sketches see below.
I cannot urge you strongly enough to support art, and support artists, and support this artist and his art.
https://www.patreon.com/YAFGCRIch/posts
Warmest regards,
JED
At Last! “Challenges Of Zona – Confessions” Visual Novel
Frigging finally, after hours and hours of solitary toil to make a visual novel/game of Zona (including an abortive attempt to export it which meant I had to practically recreate it from scratch) I have a 0.01 beta version as a demo. It is short and a bit rough around the edges, but I hope you all have fun with it.
Set in the master bedroom of the Hollywood mansion right after their engagement party, it’s where Zona confesses to her new silver-bonded Mentl the one thing that she has been keeping to herself forever.
In a way, this returns Zona to her origins in the adult find-your-path books she was created for, as the visual novel medium is just a higher tech version of that. Also, it’s very dirty. Definitely NOT safe for work.
I think of this as a “proof of concept” for one more product and direction we can take the characters and reward my wonderful Zonaphiles. Frankly, I think she lends herself to this medium pretty handily.
A one dollar patronage at patreon.com/JEDraft gets you access to this and much more!
Warm regards,
JED
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JED
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